Posted on 11/16/2023 4:04:14 AM PST by thegagline
Oscar-winning folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie has long been viewed as a barrier-breaking, Indigenous icon — but a recent news investigation has raised doubts over her Indigenous roots.
A Canadian Broadcast Corporation feature on the singer-songwriter has led to accusations that Sainte-Marie is a “pretendian” — the term coined for people who fake having Indigenous ancestry.
Sainte-Marie, 82, claimed that she was born on a Piapot Cree reservation in Canada and was adopted by white parents as part of the country’s infamous Sixties Scoop in which Indigenous children were removed from their families and adopted by white families in a government policy of forced assimilation.
But the recent CBC report cites a birth certificate that states the singer was born “Beverly Jean Santamaria” in Stoneham, Massachusetts to parents of European lineage.
It also quotes several family members who claim “her story is an elaborate fabrication.”
Sainte-Marie shared her Cree culture with youths across the nation when she appeared on Sesame Street in the 1970s and she has won numerous awards including an Oscar in 1983 for co-writing the song “Up Where We Belong” — for which she became considered the first Indigenous person to win the prestigious award.
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The folk singer called the allegations “hurtful” in a statement released before the CBC report was published, knowing what was to come.
She wrote that what she knows of her Indigenous ancestry, she learned from her “growing up mother” and her own research later in life.
“My mother told me many things, including that I was adopted and that I was Native, but there was no documentation as was common for Indigenous children born in the 1940’s,” Sainte-Marie said.
She added that she doesn’t know where she is from or who her birth parents were and “will never know.” ***
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However, there is still hope for her. In that she was born in Massachusetts, she may be a member of the Warren Tribe.
Plus what Indian has a name like that? Buffy Sainte-Marie?? It’s like that Steven Wright joke, he sat next to this buxom blonde on a plane and he asked her what kind of guy does she like and she said she likes Jewish cowboys, so he introduced himself “Hi I’m Bucky Goldstein”.
She’s Latino, I guess.
That explains why she got away with it for so long.
Didn't her adoptive parents have a voice over the years? Wouldn't asking her to tell the truth be the right thing to do?
She had threatened her family to launch a litany of lawsuits if they ever talked about this.
What about her cheekbones? Does she have high cheekbones?
I’ll just go ahead and put her parents in the same bag with Twana Brawley’s father.
They have always had her birth certificate and her normal white family but she always threatened to sue them into oblivion and loss of homes if they kept trying to tell the truth about her being a regular white Massachusetts girl.
For one of her more persistent uncles she not only had her law team send him notice but she added a personal letter that she would accuse him of molesting her if he didn’t shut up.
She must not have gotten the memo that states that only Democrat US Senators are allowed to claim Indigenous status.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe she bought her parents a house, in gratitude for their silence. I don’t know. I recall heaeing a lot about her. It’s too late to do very much about the lie. She had a lucrative career for a while
I’ve heard the same thing about that “Indian” Lady who accepted the Oscar for Marlon Brando.Just another fresh faced attractive Latina who could play a character people wanted to see.
No, but she has a high shrill voice…Some say it sounds like a battle cry.
How exactly is one sued into oblivion based on a lie that's so easily proven?
She is 1/1010 Cree Indian
Science!
Good luck with that.
The “white privilege” is so strong that whites are trying to pass as minorities to get ahead.
If this does not reverse course then genocide is coming.
If one party can fund seemingly endless lawsuits, and the other parties can’t?
Easily. Just keep filing frivolous lawsuits, which must be defended.
Defending against a lawsuit costs lots of money.
In the United States, there is no "loser pays".
Allegations of molestation no longer have a statute of limitations.
Allegations by a woman are to be believed no matter what.
She rose to stardom because of white liberal guilt
Now, she’s crashing because of white liberal guilt wokeism
white liberal guilt and the “ism’s”. A fickle thing to use as a foundation for your life
Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of those names I’ve been hearing all my life yet I’ve have no ideas who she is or what she’s done or what she even looks like.
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